Sushmita Pati

Properties of Rent

Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings rent to the forefront of an urban discourse using ethnography. It studies how vernacular forms of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.

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Produktdetails

• Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517277
• ISBN-10: 1316517276
• Artikelnr.: 62299059

Autorenporträt

Sushmita Pati teaches political science at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her areas of interests are urban politics, political economy and political theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of maps and figures
Abbreviations
Glossary
Units of measurement
Maps
Introduction
1. Creating values of land: Law, records and Kabza
2. From buying land, owning taxis to becoming landlords: The changing economic landscape of villages
3. Villages of the city: Ordering spaces and aspirations in neoliberal times
4. In the shadows of the state: Community as a mode of political and economic organisation
5. Culture, gender and belongingness? City and the violence of rent
6. The fringes of the cartel: How the marginalised become landlords
7. The allure of politics: The candidates, the cadre and the euphoria of elections
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.